When the magic flower blooms

Like a key inserted into a keyhole, the most critical mechanism has been turned, and the door to the truth is slowly opening.

According to the clues of all parties so far, Officer Lin tried to deduce the last few hours of the victim's life——

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the deceased and eight colleagues checked into the hotel together.They all booked special double bed rooms, and three of them lived on the right side, upper left side and directly above the deceased respectively.

At six o'clock in the evening, the deceased and his colleagues went to the hotel restaurant for dinner, and returned to the room alone around seven o'clock.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the deceased and his colleagues went to a nearby bar box, sang karaoke and drank a lot of alcohol.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the deceased returned to the hotel with his colleagues in a drunk state, and had an accidental conflict with Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi in the elevator.Ming and He fled the scene. Half an hour later, the deceased was comforted by the hotel and sent back to the room by several colleagues.

At around [-]:[-] in the morning, Ming Ruoxing, who returned to the next room and finished washing, heard the deceased watching an indecent video.

Near one o'clock in the morning, the hotel staff knocked on the door of the deceased, but the deceased did not respond.

At [-]:[-] the next morning, entrusted by the deceased's colleague, the hotel broke into the hotel and found the deceased's body.Subsequently, there was a commotion among the onlookers, and some clues at the scene may have been destroyed.

The forensic presumed time of death was between midnight and one o'clock in the morning.That is to say, when Ming Ruoxing heard those annoying noises, a terrible murder plan was being carried out in an orderly manner.

"Because laughing gas has a distinct creamy sweetness, it is easy to identify. Therefore, the murderer should have filled the balloon with a mixture of laughing gas and carbon monoxide. The deceased watched obscene videos while in a drunk state, and by inhaling balloons Adding to the fun, this led to death." Ming Ruoxing summed up the murderer's method of committing the crime.

"To some extent, it's self-inflicted."

He Tiansi clicked his tongue twice, followed by another sentence: "Amitabha."

"But there are still some doubts that need to be explained."

Police officer Lin has already obtained part of the witness transcripts. "According to the memories of the victim's colleagues, the victim did not hold the balloons when he returned to the room. Moreover, the balloons that appeared in the elevator last night are still kept by his colleagues. There."

"Which colleague?"

"The one directly above the victim's room."

Officer Lin turned on his mobile phone and showed a photo uploaded by investigators from upstairs.Seven or eight balloons float in mid-air.All the ropes under the balloon are tied to a blue plastic hook shaped like an umbrella handle, hooked to the bedside lampshade, which is very convenient.

According to the colleague who held the balloons: These balloons were purchased from the bar last night.Laughing gas is a contraband, and it cannot be sold on the surface; but they are regular customers of that bar, so it is not a problem to get the goods in private.As for the reason for bringing the balloon back to the hotel from the bar, it was originally planned to continue smoking in the room.But then there was a conflict with Ming Ruoxing in the elevator, and everyone felt disappointed, so they separated.

"So, the victim didn't bring the balloon back to his room at all. In other words, the balloon he inhaled came from another source." Ming Ruoxing pointed out the key point.

"Not really, and it is said that there was no smoking in the bar - which is probably the most ironic point in this case."

Speaking of this, Officer Lin twitched the corner of his mouth, wanting to smile or not.

"The victim's subordinates are quite 'interesting'. Once the leader died, he dared to say anything. The record said that more than one person in their company had bumped into the victim in a bar. It said he was five It is full of poison, and inhaling laughing gas is just a trivial matter, if you do a blood test, maybe there will be a bigger 'surprise'."

"It's probably because I'm afraid of being regarded as a criminal suspect, so I'm in a hurry to get rid of the relationship."

He Tiansi muttered: "That is to say, the deceased pretended not to be interested in laughing gas on the surface, but after returning to the hotel, it is very likely that he smoked it secretly? It is really two-faced."

"I think the murderer should have a special relationship with the deceased."

Ming Ruoxing, who hadn't spoken much from the beginning, suddenly said this.

"How do you say it?" Officer Lin signaled him to elaborate.

"Last night, the victim was punched by me in the elevator. This was a complete accident. There was only a short time difference of about two hours from the conflict to the death of the victim. Ordinary normal people should still be immersed in the incident. Amidst the excitement brought about by him, he may feel as disappointed as those colleagues who were about to inhale laughing gas. However, the victim managed to stabilize his emotions in such a short period of time, and even performed indescribable behavior. This conversion is too blunt-so I think he should have an appointment with someone last night. It was this person who convinced him to inhale the gas in the murder balloon. Further speculation, this person has an extraordinary relationship with the deceased, and there may even be physical relationship."

"So, the possibility of being a woman is very high." Officer Lin concluded.

"Well, it's hard to say whether it's a man or a woman." He Tiansi interrupted again, "In the elevator last night, that guy was still talking to Xiao Ming..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Ming Ruoxing had already flung his eyes at him.

Sensing the blatant threat to his life, He Tiansi decisively changed the subject: "That's right! Check the surveillance on the corridor. Whoever found the deceased with a balloon last night is the real culprit!"

"The monitoring has been investigated, but no matter whether it is the elevator, corridor or corridor, the picture you assumed was not captured."

Officer Lin produced actual evidence to overthrow He Tiansi's hypothesis, and proposed a new idea,

"If it were me, I would choose another, more subtle way to deliver these balloons."

As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of the balcony with his finger.

Ming Ruoxing's thinking also synchronized with him: "Think carefully, the laughing balloons in the photo are a bunch. In order to avoid the victim's suspicion, the killing balloons prepared by the murderer should be as consistent as possible in appearance with the real laughing balloons. Carbon monoxide is poisoned quickly, and it is unlikely that the victim died after inhaling all the balloons. So where did the rest of the murder balloons go? The corridors are monitored, and the door is tied with a chain. It is obviously impossible to recover from the door, only the balcony... ...are there any traces on the balcony?"

"Only the victim's footprint." Officer Lin said, "There is dust under the slippers by the bed, which proves that he did go to the balcony before he died."

Ming Ruoxing asked again: "What was the original state of the balcony door?"

"I know this!" He Tiansi answered in a second: "It's half open, about this big space." He stretched out his hand and gestured, "The curtains are only half drawn, almost flush with the bed."

"I have a good memory." Officer Lin nodded at him.

"That's the guy's specialty."

After replying this sentence, Ming Ruoxing led He Tiansi quickly to the French window leading to the balcony.

"The weather is hot recently, and the indoor temperature is constant and not too cold. There is no reason for the deceased to keep the sliding door open. There must be something wrong here."

Just as a forensic officer was extracting fingerprints on the window, he pointed to the window frame and card slot and asked, "Is there anything unusual in this area?"

The forensic personnel said that there was a small amount of sticky attachment in the card slot, like the residue after the sticker or tape was peeled off.

"A trick."

Officer Lin has already seen through the tricks behind the scenes, "As long as the card slot is pasted with tape in advance, this level of spring lock will not work properly. From the outside, the door seems to be closed normally, but it only needs to be pushed lightly. will open."

"Is there such an operation?"

He Tiansi's eyes were opened today.Not only that, but his heart was itchy, and he felt eager to try.

So he interrupted again: "But the tape is gone. So, among those guys who entered the room at the first time and called it 'rescue the victim', the real purpose of someone is to destroy the evidence?"

"That's about it."

Ming Ruoxing finally affirmed him once, but quickly praised Police Officer Lin, "It seems that you have controlled everyone from the beginning, which is a very correct decision."

"This bowl of rice for so many years is not for nothing."

Police Officer Lin looked quite complacent, and looked down at the transcript in his hand, "Among the eight colleagues of the deceased, those who entered the scene..."

"Tall, thin, two women, one Mediterranean, one with glasses, and a man with blond hair."

He Tiansi reported all of them in one go, and at the end he deliberately glanced at Ming Ruoxing.

Childish...but really handsome.Ming Ruoxing silently gave such a comment in his heart.

For He Tiansi's super memory, Officer Lin was not as surprised as before. He quickly searched out the records of these people from the records.

"Among the three colleagues who were neighbors to the deceased, only the holder of the laughing balloon directly above did not enter the scene. The colleagues who lived diagonally above and next door all entered this room at the first time."

As a result, the scope of suspects was temporarily narrowed down to two people, but the case did not make much progress—no suspicious items were found in the room of the two suspects, and of course they themselves denied any connection with the case.

With no evidence or witnesses, in this case, we can only move forward in a detour, and first study the possible motives of the two people for killing.

According to the information currently available.The man who lived above the deceased had the best relationship with the deceased, flattering and fawning on weekdays.But when ordinary employees met in private, he would pour out his bitterness and tell how he was oppressed and bullied by the dead.It is worth mentioning that it was he who voluntarily told the police that the deceased had ingested laughing gas.

The female colleague who lived next door to the deceased did not have a motive for committing the crime—like many women in the same company, the deceased had verbally and physically harassed her, but everything was just a rumor and has never been confirmed.

"He is obviously a sanctimonious scum, but there are so many people around him, cheering him up, what's wrong with this society?"

Although he knew it was a bit angry to say that, He Tiansi couldn't help but sigh.

"Don't worry about it. Society has created such a person, and society will destroy it with its own hands."

Ming Ruoxing interrupted him, "If you have time to sigh there, why don't you come and help me with an experiment."

Only then did He Tiansi realize that Ming Ruoxing had been busy for a while when he and Police Officer Lin were researching the motive of the murder.At this moment, he was holding a string of hydrogen balloons he got from nowhere and a small plastic bag in his hand.

"How can I help you?"

"It's very simple, take these things and go to the next door, and then do what I asked you to do." As he said, Ming Ruoxing listened to him, and secretly taught him the opportunity.

"Can this work?"

"No more."

Everyone, including Officer Lin, was attracted by the colorful balloons.He Tiansi didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly took his things and ran to the balcony next door.

According to the method Ming Ruoxing taught just now, he first took out a rope about five meters long from the plastic bag, tied one end to the hook under the balloon, and tied a small heavy object to the other end.Then, take out another coil of thin, transparent fishing line, and also fasten one end to the handle.

After finishing the preparations, he stood up and made an ok gesture.

"Come here!" Ming Ruoxing spread out his hands.

He Tiansi picked up the small weight at the end of the rope and easily threw it into Ming Ruoxing's hand.Ming Ruoxing immediately pulled the rope, and quickly pulled the balloon to his balcony.

He walked into the room with the balloon, and with the help of the appraiser, he closed the sliding door to the extent that it was almost concealed, and then turned to look at Officer Lin.

"The process went well, but there was a problem."

Officer Lin raised a little objection, "When the body was found, the lights were not turned on in the house, so it is understandable that the thin fishing line could not be found, but what about the rope tied with a heavy object? What if the deceased took the balloon and untied it, and left Didn't the scene become evidence?"

"The weight and the rope did remain at the scene, and we all saw that just now."

Ming Ruoxing's answer was unexpected, "It's just that it is so integrated with the environment that it has been ignored."

"..." Officer Lin pondered for a moment, then laughed dumbly, "Could it be... that?!"

He turned his head and asked the forensic personnel to take out the packaged two bags of evidence again.It was the red cotton rope that was found on the bed that was suspected of being bound, and the sex toy.

"That's right, as long as the murderer combines these two things, they can function as ropes and heavy objects. Even if the victim unties the rope, the police will not be suspicious of these two things in this messy scene... "

"Can we continue?"

Ming Ruoxing interrupted Officer Lin's monologue, and walked towards the bed with a blank expression.

"Now, the deceased got the balloon. He couldn't wait to sit back on the bed and start making fun...I guess the murderer must have made some special mark on the balloon, guiding the deceased to exclude those ordinary balloons that only serve the purpose of floating, and immediately chose the messy one." A carbon monoxide murder balloon."

Having said that, he also found a balloon with a special handwriting written in a marker, untied the tether, and let the air go.

"and then?"

Officer Lin folded his arms and leaned on the desk, as if he had entered the mode of watching a movie.

Ming Ruoxing didn't speak, just loosened his fingers - the remaining pile of balloons flew to the ceiling without a sound.

"It's moving!" an unknown forensic officer shouted.

Indeed, the balloon on the ceiling was slowly moving towards the balcony.When they floated in front of the sliding door, the blue hook at the lower end of the balloon touched the crack of the door and began to slide down little by little.

"Ah... which fishing line is it!"

Someone suddenly realized it, and saw that the fishing line had been straightened, and the blue hook just caught the sliding door.The sliding door, which had not been closed tightly before, opened slowly.When it was opened to a large enough angle, the fishing line that had tightened the blue hook was slightly loosened, the balloon floated up again, and the hook fell off the doorknob.Then, He Tiansi pulled the fishing line again, causing all the balloons to float outside silently.

Officer Lin followed Ming Ruoxing to the balcony, only to see that He Tiansi had already recovered the balloon.He tied the plastic bag with leftover fishing line and other tools in his hand to the hook, then let go and released the balloon into the sky.

In just a few minutes, the "killer balloon" carried other crime tools and disappeared from everyone's sight.

"That's all the murderer's way of killing."

Ming Ruoxing turned around and looked at Police Officer Lin: "It's just a little bit of buoyancy of the balloon and the characteristics of the hotel facilities, and of course the corrupted life style of the deceased. Among the two suspects, the person who lives diagonally above , the position of the room is opposite to the direction in which the sliding door opens, so it does not have the ability to remotely manipulate the sliding door. Therefore, the murderer can only be the woman who lives next door."

After saying this, he stopped and waited for Officer Lin's response.

Officer Ke Lin just smiled.

"Interlacing is like a mountain. Establishing a reasoning and closing a case are not the same thing. Even if you successfully deduce the truth of the incident, the evidence has already flown away, and it may not be found back. Under such circumstances, the murderer will not Fufu."

"Who said there was no proof?"

Ming Ruoxing hooked his lips, it was a proud and confident smile.

"The proof is in my hands."

Saying that, he spread his hands.

In his palm was the balloon skin that he had just deflated.